In Lapoujade’s description, the worlds Dick constructs are always on the point of collapsing, precisely because they are ...

Extracts from forthcoming books by Kathryn Davis, Jane DeLynn, N. H. Pritchard, Katherine Rundell, and Izumi Suzuki.

From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...

From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.

I love density. Compression is nuclear. Big family, small house—no room (Jeezy). Used to act up when I went to school—thought it was cool, but I really was hurt (Meek Mill). Free Gaza, we on the ...

In 1985, a peasant named Zeng Yinglong declared his hometown in Sichuan Province an independent kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor. As a result, Zeng was charged with multiple counterrevolutionary ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

Above the crescent of a colonnade. And he is standing on a gravel path Between turned-up rows of empty flower beds.

below and above them with pink.

the castigations and the bountiful.